Bridge won't batch to Photoshop

I have been having some problems recently with Bridge connecting with Photoshop to batch files. I keep getting the error "FatalError: General Photoshop error occurred. This functionality may not be available in this version of Photoshop. - <no additional information available>" whenever I try to use the batch function. I am running Photoshop CS3 (10.0.1) and Bridge CS3 (2.1.1.9) on OS X (10.4.11). I have noticed several people on the forum having some functionality between the two, but I cannot make the two work together. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

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